Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the Payments space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Taavet Hinrikus
Founder and CEO of Wise
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum’s Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; his investments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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About Wise: Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.
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Kristo Kaarmann
Founder and CEO of Wise
Kristo Kaarmann is the co-founder and CEO of TransferWise, a peer-to-peer international money transfer business. The business is the first of its kind: it allows regular people to access the real mid-market exchange rate by cutting out traditional banking fees altogether. It charges only a tiny, totally transparent service charge. Prior to starting TransferWise, Kristo was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He worked with European banks and insurers to modernise their processes and systems. Stunned by their inefficiency, he teamed up with Taavet Hinrikus, then Skype’s director of strategy, to develop an entirely new system for moving money across borders. Kristo started his first business, an online investments tracking portal Investor.ee in 1999, when he was 19. Although the service was popular at the time, it never turned a profit and was acquired a few years later for an undisclosed amount (read: very little). Kristo is also involved in the organisation of Young Scholar Grant, where grants are given out to the brightest prospective university students of Estonia to study abroad in Europe’s best universities.
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About Wise: Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.
Guillaume Pousaz
Founder & CEO of Checkout.com
Guillaume Pousaz is CEO and founder of Checkout.com, a leading digital payments solution company. Guillaume believes that financial complexity is a barrier to innovation which is blocking global economic prosperity. Having witnessed the growth of the internet since he was young, he founded Checkout.com in 2012 with a mission to build the banking that businesses deserve. Over the last decade, he has worked with some of the world’s most innovative companies to provide them with solutions to complex payment problems. Checkout.com is now one of the largest fintechs globally with 13 offices and a team of 750+ people. Originally hailing from Switzerland, he has since lived all over the world as he drove Checkout.com’s ambitious international expansion.
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About Checkout.com: Checkout.com is a global payments solution provider on a mission to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy
Nikolay Storonsky
Founder & CEO of Revolut
Nikolay Storonsky is the Founder and CEO at Revolut. He is a former Equity Derivatives Trader at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers. Storonsky graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT) with a master of science in General and Applied Physics and earned a master of arts in Applied Economics and Finance at New Economic School.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Omar Rafii
Co-Founder and CEO of Krowd
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About Krowd: Krowd to help people sift through the millions of products and services online.
John Lunn
CEO and Founder of Gr4vy
John Lunn is the Senior Global Director of Developer and Startup Relations for PayPal and Braintree. John is focused on innovation, ensuring that developers and startups around the globe have access to the features, functionality and mentorship that they need. Prior to his current work at PayPal, John spent 15 years building systems for payment and fraud detection at several successful start ups.
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About Gr4vy: Gr4vy is a cloud payment orchestration platform that helps businesses manage their payment solutions
Mike Laven
Chief Executive Officer of Currencycloud
Mike Laven is a Chief Executive Officer With more than 25 years’ experience at the helm of a number of high growth fintech and technology businesses, Mike is well-known for his ability to build venture-backed organisations and lead them to profitable growth. Having originally spent six years working for the United Nations, Mike has since gained a glowing reputation for fintech expertise, with executive roles at Infinity Financial Technology, Cohera, Coronet and Traiana. Mike joined Currencycloud in 2011, and as CEO is influential in growing the firm to become the world’s most trusted payment platform. Under his leadership, Currencycloud has established itself as a leading force in the digital financial services revolution and has raised $61m in funding (as of March 2017).
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About Currencycloud: Currencycloud specializes in a fully cloud-based platform for B2B cross-border payments.
Carlo Gualandri
Founder and CEO of Soldo
Carlo Gualandri is the founder and CEO at Soldo. Gualandri is an Italian technology entrepreneur whose innovative companies have broken new ground in the world of media (Virgilio), banking (Fineco), and gaming (Gioco Digitale).
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About Soldo: Soldo is a multi-user expense account helping companies manage their budgets.
Victor Lugger
Co-founder and CEO of Sundayapp
Victor Lugger is the Co-founder and CEO of Sundayapp.
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About Sundayapp: Sundayapp is a fully integrated solution built for restaurants, bars, pubs, cafés, and hotels customers to pay for their food via a QR code.
Jasper Dykes
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Fly Now Pay Later
An experienced and highly operational Chief Executive with a successful track record in consumer lending and financial services across US, UK and European markets with specific leadership skills for creating, growing and developing high growth businesses. Approved Person by 2 financial regulators: PRA/FCA & Central Bank of the Republic of Lithuania, with extensive sector experience within alternative payments, consumer lending & debt capital markets having raised in excess of $200m throughout his career to date.
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About Fly Now Pay Later: Fly Now Pay Later is a fintech company that helps consumers split the cost of their travel in monthly installments.
Shachar Bialick
Founder & CEO of Curve
Shachar Bialick is a serial entrepreneur, passionate about using technology to improve lives. He is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Curve -a fintech startup. Hefounded Curve to give people a simpler, smarter way to manage their financial life. It allows people to spend from all their bank accounts and cards through one smart Curve card, connected to an even smarter app. Cardholders can see all their business and personal spend in one place, cut out bank fees on business trips, make their existing cards more secure, manage cash flow with ‘financial time travel’, and never worry about doing their expenses again.
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About Curve: Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.
Martin Kissinger
Founder & CEO of Lendable
Martin is the founder and CEO of Lendable (www.lendable.co.uk). Lendable provides personal loans to a broad range of UK consumers, by instantly matching them up with qualified investors through automated credit decisions and fully personalised risk-based pricing. Martin previously worked in venture development at Rocket Internet, and among other projects started the incubator’s first fin-tech venture, Lendico, now active in 6 countries and valued at €120M. Prior to Rocket, he spent time at venture capital firms including Accel Partners. Martin graduated at the top of his class with a research masters degree in Economics from Oxford, and also holds a BSc from the London School of Economics.
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About Lendable: Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
Sanja Kon
CEO of Utrust
Sanja is a senior digital executive with more than 10 years’ experience in developing and executing global digital strategy, delivering sustainable revenue growth in multinationals within the E-Commerce, Fintech and Telecommunication industries. As the VP of Global Partnerships UTRUST, Sanja’s main focus is to partner with key international players to improve the accessibility of digital assets and increase cryptocurrency merchant adoption. As a creative strategist, always focused on innovation, Sanja has guided cross- functional teams to develop and execute the Marketplaces proposition at PayPal, with the aim of providing the best in class online payment experience to e-commerce platforms. Sanja headed the European Partnerships strategy at eBay, forming key global relationships to enhance the selling experience for eBay professional merchants. As Head of the Italian Consumer Strategy team at eBay, Sanja redesigned the omni-channel customer experience for eBay’s core vertical experiences, including the re-launch of the Fashion buying and selling hubs. A multi lingual communicator, fluent in English, Italian, Croatian, Serbian and Slovene, Sanja is an excellent influencer with a proven track of building and leading international teams in challenging commercial environments. Fascinated by how technological innovation impacts on our life, constantly investigating new start-ups that will shape our future. Sanja is a speaker at international conferences, sharing her vision and knowledge on how the digital landscape impacts consumer’s behaviours.
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About Utrust: Web3 payments technology. The radically better way to pay and get paid globally
Christian Owens
Founder, CEO of Paddle
Christian Owens is a technology entrepreneur located in the United Kingdom. Christian has been involved with a number of startups but most notably his own two [Branchr Advertising](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/branchr-advertising) and [Mac Bundle Box](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mac-bundle-box). Christian is currently the Founder and Director of Branchr Advertising. A company with a new approach on CPC based internet advertising that allows fair ad distribution, without contracts or startup fees. Previously Christian was involved in the creation of various web based technologies and applications that have since been sold. Christian also started The Dream Apps, a privately funded Macintosh software development company.
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About Paddle, The Thiel Foundation: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Juan Lobato
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Ebury
Juan Lobato is a tech entrepreneur based in London. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ebury, one of European fastest growing fintechs. Furthermore, he is an investor in over a dozen tech companies across the UK, Europe, and the US
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About BaseKit, Ebury: Ebury is a financial services company designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses that want to trade internationally.
Salvador Garcia
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Ebury
Salvador has led the creation and growth of Ebury. His passion and expertise in Financial Services has enabled Ebury to become one of Europe’s most successful fintech businesses, offering SMEs the financial products required to grow across international boundaries.
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About Ebury: Ebury is a financial services company designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses that want to trade internationally.
Piotr Pisarz
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Uncapped
Piotr joined DN Capital in 2017 as an Investment Manager. Previously he was a VC investor in Orange Growth Capital, where he focused on fintech. Piotr started his career in Citigroup, where he was an M&A Investment Banker covering an energy sector, and then spent several years in Google where he focused on Finance, Hardware and Sales areas. Piotr has a Masters degree from London Business School and B.Sc. in Finance and Accounting from Warsaw School of Economics.
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About Uncapped: Uncapped is a provider of revenue-based financing that enables founders to raise growth capital without interest or equity.
Richard Ells
CEO of Electroneum
Richard Ells is a founder of Electroneum; the world’s fastest growing cryptocurrency. Owner of two other successful digital businesses; SiteWizard (digital agency) and Retortal (social media scheduler).
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About Electroneum: Electroneum is a digital payments ecosystem that allows anyone to store, send and receive digital funds via their smartphone.
Jeremy Nicholds
CEO of Judopay
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About Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Mike Jordan
CEO of Bink
Over 20 years’ experience in the payment card industry at American Express, HSBC and AlphaCard. Mike has worked across diverse cultures and multiple geographies including Europe and the Middle East. Mike has experience in joint venture business management at board level and as CEO of AlphaCard and is highly active in the European FinTech community.
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About Bink, JAGARS LLP: Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Breon Corcoran
CEO of Zepz
Formerly CEO of Paddy Power Betfair plc, in 2016 Breon Corcoran led the merger of Betfair and Paddy Power to form one of the world’s largest online gaming companies. Prior to this, Breon was the CEO at Betfair until 2016 and COO of Paddy Power until 2011. In the 1990s, Breon was a Vice-President, Equity Derivative Trading, at J.P Morgan and has also worked at Bankers Trust. He has a BA (Mathematics) from Trinity College, Dublin and an MBA from INSEAD. In 2016, Breon was awarded the UK’s Sunday Times’ ‘Business Leader of the Year’ award. He is currently a non-executive director at the wealth management company, Tilney Group.
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About Zepz: Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
William Reeve
Chief Executive Officer of Goodlord
William Reeve is a serial entrepreneur and business angel based in London. He serves as non-executive Director for a variety of high-growth businesses including DealChecker.co.uk, Graze, iAnnounce, True Knowledge, and Zoopla. William co-founded Fletcher Research in 1997, which rapidly became the UK’s leading internet research business. He sold it to Forrester Research (NASDAQ:FORR) in 1999. William co-founded ScreenSelect in 2003. ScreenSelect grew rapidly and took over a variety of other businesses, before rebranding as LOVEFiLM.com in 2006. LOVEFiLM.com is now the leading international online film rental business. It is backed by Amazon.com, Arts Alliance, Balderton Capital, DFJ Esprit, and Index Ventures.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Ola Oyetayo
Co-Founder & CEO of Verto
Ola Oyetayo is the Co-Founder & CEO of VertoFX.
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About Verto: We power cross‑border payments for the world’s fastest‑growing startups and enterprises.
Philippe Gelis
Co-Founder & CEO of Kantox
Philippe is a well-organized, detail-oriented professional with excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills. He thrives on new challenges, and his innovative approach, along with his desire to progress, allow him to always reach outstanding results. I’ve had the opportunity to work with him during almost 3 years and he’s always been one step ahead, leading with ease multifaceted projects in multicultural environments, always thinking “out of the box†to offer a new vision to deliver high-quality work. As a visionary, he will one day excel in the planet “web†where he is already a first-class surfer!
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About Barcelona Activa, Decelera, Endeavor, Kantox, Syra Coffee, The Galion Project, YZR: Kantox is a leader in Currency Management Automation software that enables businesses to automate their end-to-end FX workflow
Nicholas Dryden
CEO of Fingopay
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About FinGo, Fingopay, Sthaler: Identity authentication platform
Nick Katz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of acasa
Nick Katz has worked in the US and the UK for nearly a decade in just about every segment of the real estate industry possible. He’s bought and sold commercial buildings, improved the energy efficiency of hotels, and deployed software to large property portfolios. In 2013 Nick joined VC backed Honest Buildings as Head of Europe before launching Splittable. Nick loves the idea of leveraging technology to help people live better at home. He’s an expert at dealing with housemate issues having rented and shared nine properties in London.
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About acasa, Locatable: acasa is a household management tool and bill splitting package that helps students, sharers and couples.
Freddy Macnamara
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Cuvva
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About Cuvva: Radically better insurance, fit for the future.
Mustafa Khanwala
Founder and CEO of MishiPay
Mustafa is a Mechatronic Engineer who has previously worked in and led projects with companies like Porsche, National Instruments, Barclays and TATA and has proven track record in successful innovation. He has sales experience through working in his family business and starting a food delivery venture in Manchester in 2011. Towards the end of his MSc Engineering with Finance degree at UCL, he thought of the idea for MishiPay after having waited too long in a queue to buy 1 just item. He then started MishiPay as a side project and designed and built the first functional prototype by himself. Having worked on MishiPay for several months and after seeing the technology working in real life, he rejected offers from Goldman Sachs, KPMG and Barclays to work full-time on MishiPay. He also called up Tanvi then, a brilliant computer systems engineer, his friend since 5 years and someone he’s worked with previously. He convinced her to join MishiPay as CoFounder and CTO and they haven’t looked back since. As proof of their teamwork, just look at their accomplishments since Nov 2015; live public trials in London, Cisco global partnership, seed investment, major retailer projects in India, Europe and the Middle East, awards from Mayor of London, Government of India, Anita Borg Institute, University of Manchester, UCL and others.
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About MishiPay: Mishipay is an app allowing you to never have to stand in line to pay at a store again.
Aron Alexander
CEO & Founder of WeGift
Serial entrepreneur with a background in retail, technology and payments. Incorrigibly curious. Continually learning. Driven by solving problems, building value and getting stuff done.
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About WeGift: WeGift’s cloud-based, open API solutions allow businesses to transfer value to consumers, in real-time and globally.
George Urdea
Co-founder & CEO of Nobly POS – Point of Sale
Founder @ Nobly POS – POINT OF SALE
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About Nobly POS – Point of Sale: Nobly is the point-of-sale, inventory management and CRM app for the iPad. A system that is beautiful designed, quick and easy to use.
Baris Ozaydinli
Founder & CEO of Scooch
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About Fitwell, Founders Factory, Founders Factory, Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Ian Hooper
CEO & Founder of Scooch
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About Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Michael Mueller
Chief Executive Officer of Form3
Michael set up Form3 after spending more than 25 years in various management positions with Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays. Most recently, he was Global Head of Cash Management and a Member of the Corporate Banking Executive at Barclays, where he had responsibility for the product management and distribution of the bank’s payment, corporate deposit and customer access products. For many years Michael has been passionate about driving digital change and innovation in global banks and has sponsored many key initiatives in this area, including white-labelling, biometric security, mobile payments (Pingit) and portal and mobile banking technology. More recently he has been actively involved in industry-level discussions about central bank digital currencies and the application of distributed ledger technology in financial services. Michael holds a degree in Organizational Psychology and a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD.
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About Form3: Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.
Nicholas Fullerton
CEO of Global Reach Group
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About Global Reach Group: Global Reach Group is a leading foreign currency provider for corporates and personal clients.
Todd Clyde
CEO of Token
Todd is a serial high-tech entrepreneur with four consecutive successful exists across a broad range of industries including Financial Technology and Enterprise Software. After 12 years of implementing enterprise applications with Accenture, Todd has spent that last 20 years at venture backed and private equity backed companies. He grew three venture start-ups from pre-revenue to successful exit with two of the companies exceeding $60M within three years. Todd also led one Private Equity backed turnaround and was able to restore a declining business to double-digit growth within one year, culminating in the successful sale of the business. Todd provides unique market insight and technical depth required for early-stage company leaders. Todd’s leadership style is “from the front” and is an inspirational leader providing direction, motivation, and optimism for the entire company. Todd is also known as an advocate for customers, being passionate for their realization of value and overall success.
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About Token: Token is an open banking payments platform driving the shift from traditional payment methods to bank payments.
Shashi Fernando
CEO of Auctus Alternative
CEO, Yonder & Beyond. Chairman, Boppl. Chairman, Prism Digital. Chairman, Wondr. Former CEO of Saffron Digital. Former board member of HTC. Former CCO of HTC. Previously the founder and CEO of Saffron Digital which raised $3million in 2007 and was acquired by HTC in 2011 for the value of $50million. Built an exceptional team from scratch to 120 strong across the London and Los Angeles offices. Delivered technologies into the heart of the mobile and entertainment industry by securing clients such as Vodafone, T-Mobile, Samsung USA, Paramount, Disney. Fernando is cited in the Top 50 in the world for Mobile Entertainment consecutively for 2 years, as well as placing for Mobile Power 50, the 50 most powerful people in mobile industry.
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About Auctus Alternative, Boppl Limited, Saffron Digital: Invest. Manage. Succeed. Equipping startups with vital capabilities beyond capital.
Cameron Parry
CEO & Founder of Tally
Serial innovator and Chief Executive of listed fintech and natural resources public companies, including the world’s first blockchain company to IPO on a recognised stock market (Dec 2015). Founder and CEO of Tally® – the standalone physical gold monetary system and digital currency and first in the world to offer individual accounts with international bank account numbers for a non-government issued currency. Joint CEO of FCA-licensed 35-year-old London Stockbroking firm, First Equity Limited (FCA Licence No. 124394) and a Financial Conduct Authority approved person (FCA Ref No. CJP01234). Created the vertically integrated gold company Lionsgold Limited (LSE: LION). Founder and inaugural CEO of London Stock Market AIM-listed natural resources investing company Metal Tiger PLC (LSE: MTR) and co-Founder of Coinsilium Group Limited (NEX: COIN).
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About Tally Money: Tally® is a standalone monetary system, payments platform and commodity currency that seamlessly operates with the global banking system’s infrastructure whilst safeguarding customers from the systemic devaluation and risks of the fiat currency fractional reserve banking system.
Ohad Folman
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Practi
Founder & CEO at Practi.
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About Just Eat, Practi: Practi develops cloud based software solutions to manage retail businesses.
Alex Mifsud
Chief Executive Officer of Weavr
Before founding Ixaris Alex worked as a senior consultant in the Cambridge-based tech practice of Arthur D. Little, a global management consultancy providing technology and innovation to blue chip clients. Alex holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Malta – where he later headed the computer science departments – as well as MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Edinburgh.
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About Weavr: Weavr is an online platform that creates, integrates, deploys, and runs digital payment flows.
Jon Prideaux
CEO of Boku
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About Boku: Boku is a global mobile payments network providing mobile-enhanced payments in e-commerce and at physical point-of-sale.
George Meek
CEO of InPlayer
CEO at InPlayer
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About InPlayer: InPlayer is a video and digital asset monetization platform.
Christer Holloman
Co-Founder & CEO of Divido
Christer Holloman is the CEO and co-founder of Divido (http://www.divido.com), a platform for retailers, lenders and payment providers that want to offer customers to pay anything in monthly instalments. Divido works with 500+ partners such as BMW, BNP and Mastercard. Prior to launching Divido, Christer set up Glassdoor.com in EMEA, now a billion-dollar Google-backed startup. Holloman holds an MBA from the University of Oxford.
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About Divido: Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Hammad Kayani
CEO, Founder of BitFutr
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About BitFutr: BitFutr is the home of your Crypto. The BitFutr app helps you spend your crypto, get up to 8% in saving and invest your crypto 24/7.
Richard H Harris
Group CEO, Founder of Ensygnia
Richard is known as a hands-on, technology entrepreneur with a track record of building and transforming early-stage technology companies such as Ensygnia, Swivel Secure, Mobix, SAVortex, Clearswift and Tumbleweed. As Chief Executive and a founder of Ensygnia, Richard conceptualised and patented a visual alternative to NFC called Onescan. Ensygnia’s Onescan platform enables a consumer to go from looking to buying in under 10s from first contact – including new customers! At the Mobile World Congress over 1500 industry leaders voted Onescan as one of top 3 the innovations most likely to have the greatest impact on the mobile industry over the next ten years! Ensygnia beat tough competition from AirWatch, CloudX, Metrical and SpatialBuzz to win the Mobile Industry Awards 2014: Best Use of Software. In his spare time, he enjoys Ceroc & Scuba, is a campaigner for the rights of vulnerable adults and mental health issues when possible working with Zacchaeus 2000 Trust and Mental Health Research UK as well as mentoring Nicholas Fearn a young man with Asperger’s. Also enjoys mucking around with molten glass, composing music, painting and digital art.
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About Ensygnia: Ensygnia delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations deploying omnichannel solutions
Frans van Eersel
Founder & CEO of dopay
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About dopay: dopay provides a cloud-based payroll service that allows employers to calculate salaries and make payments electronically.
Justin Floyd
Founder and CEO of RedCloud Technologies
Justin Floyd Recognised as a leading Entrepreneur for almost 3 decades Justin Floyd has founded and invested in a number of innovative businesses. Since 1987 he has been involved in companies that have included Vecta Software Corporation, a leading Cloud Business Intelligence company and the world’s first leasing exchange that generated over $2 billion in transactions over two years. Mr. Floyd is a trusted adviser to a number of Entrepreneurs who’s products and services are changing markets. He is the Founding Partner of RedCloud VC, an investment company that backs entrepreneurs in emerging and developing markets focusing on mobile, cloud and disruptive technologies.
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About RedCloud Technologies: RedCloud believe technology will universally change the way in which services are distributed & accessed by people in new digital economy.
Hiroki Takeuchi
Co-founder & CEO of GoCardless
Hiroki is co-founder and CEO of GoCardless. Founded in 2011, GoCardless is a global leader in direct bank payments. The business is on a mission to take the pain out of getting paid for (remove “recurring revenue”) businesses. More than 70,000 businesses around the world, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $30bn of payments a year. Before starting GoCardless, Hiroki studied Mathematics at Oxford University and worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co.
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About GoCardless: GoCardless is a payment company that makes collecting payments by direct debit easy for everyone.
Yoyo Chang
Co-Founder, CEO and President of KodyPay
Yoyo is a Taiwanese born British entrepreneur who is a co-founder and the current CEO of KodyPay. Yoyo co-founded KodyPay in the final year of High School and successfully raised US$6 million over 2020/21. Hoping to build a career in investment banking, Yoyo had started to invest in the stock market at the age of 13. With returns of over 80% in Q4 2016, he led his school team to first place in a national investment competition. During Yoyo’s first year at the University of York, Yoyo self-invested £120,000 of trading profits to build a pilot product for KodyPay. Yoyo has studied at King’s College, University of Cambridge and Langwith College, University of York.
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About IIC Holdings, KodyPay, Nerd Ventures: Revolutionising in-person payments to grow your business with a trustworthy and innovative solution.
Greg Marsh
Founder & CEO of Nous
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About Nous: Nous is a software company that deals with household utilities.
Phil McGriskin
CEO & Founder of Vitesse PSP
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About Vitesse PSP: Vitesse is the smart way to make secure global money transfers.
Adi Ben-Ari
Founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain
Adi has over 20 years of enterprise experience, working as a solution architect for blue chip companies and leading major deliveries of blockchain solutions is widely recognised in the industry. Adi is a noted speaker at major industry conferences, experienced in educating the C-suite on blockchain, and acts as an advisor for a number of early blockchain startups. His work has also been noted by the UK Government, where he was invited to represent the industry at the Blockchain Round Table at the House of Lords. Additionally, Adi has co-invented and designed a number of patents within the blockchain and mobile payments space. Adi holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA.
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About APPII, Applied Blockchain, Nuggets: Applied Blockchain builds private and secure business applications
Igor Chugunov
CEO & Founder of Credits
12 years in business, including IT fintech projects, bank and credit e-services, affiliate marketing company for banks and PDL companies. Four years of experience in the blockchain business. Working with CREDITS platform since 2016.
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About Credits, Credits: Credits App makes your money, crypto and investing experience easier
Clive Kahn
Chief Executive Officer, Co-owner & Co-founder of Payzone
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About Payzone: Payzone UK Limited is a British branded consumer payments acceptance network.
Anders la Cour
Co-Founder & CEO of Banking Circle
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About Banking Circle: Banking Circle offers its Members the capability to make and receive cross-border transfers in seconds at a low cost.
Laust Bertelsen
Founders & CEO of Banking Circle
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About Banking Circle: Banking Circle offers its Members the capability to make and receive cross-border transfers in seconds at a low cost.
Dan Wagner
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Rezolve
Dan Wagner began his career as a junior Account Executive at the advertising agency WCRS. While doing market research, that involved laborious searching of back copies of newspapers, journals, and research reports Dan first generated the concept of an electronic, PC-based information service. In 1985 at the age of 20, he left WCRS to pursue his ambition of creating such a service and established M.A.I.D. Dan was the driving force behind M.A.I.D.’s growth and development, including listings on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Throughout his career he has engineered numerous acquisitions and has been responsible for forging a wide array of strategic alliances. He led M.A.I.D.’s move into the Internet technology and eCommerce markets, being one of the first to understand their huge potential, and conceived the technology which is now Venda, in 1998. He has won a variety of business awards that recognize his achievements including The World Economic Forum’s Global Leader of Tomorrow in 1997 and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999.
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About Bright Station Ltd., Bright Station Ventures, Rezolve, Venda: Rezolve allows any kind of product or media to instantly trigger a highly relevant, contextual engagement between consumer and retailer
Tom Beckenham
Founder & CEO of Comma
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About Comma: Comma is a platform that makes it easy for businesses to pay salaries, taxes, and invoices by revolutionizing the payments system.
Daumantas Dvilinskas
CEO & Co-Founder of TransferGo
At the age of 28 Dvilinskas has already founded several companies and is currently heading TransferGo, a high-growth purely-digital global money transfer service. He is a well-known advisor in the fintech scene and was part of the Innovative Finance delegation at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2016.
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About TransferGo: TransferGo offers international money transfers for both migrant workers & businesses using their digital account-to-account business model.
Jens Lauritzson
CEO of Flexion
JI founded Flexion in 2007 with a mission to help mobile game and app developers monetize their products more effectively. Having experienced how difficult it was to monetise and find distribution for apps with the traditional Pay-Per-Download model as a developer gave me the idea to help others in the same situation. The company has since become the leading enabling solution and covers a range of monetization and discovery features. Flexion works with most of the top tier game developers and some of the best service providers in areas such as carrier billing, advertising, app discovery and search. Prior to Flexion I worked with mobile game developers and aggregators and I have had the opportunity to grow a global network of contacts within the mobile content industry for 13 years.
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About Flexion, Mobile Sensations Limited: Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
Dmitry Gunyashov
Co-Founder & CEO of Cryptopay
Dmitry is a long-term bitcoin supporter and has been involved with the bitcoin community for more than 3 years. Moreover, he has an extensive experience in e-commerce and payment systems.
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About Cryptopay, LTC.Miner: Cryptopay is a digital currency firms, offering crypto-wallets, debit cards, B2B payments, & investments.
Lee Britton
CEO EML Europe of Prepaid Financial Services Limited (PFS)
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About Prepaid Financial Services Limited (PFS): PFS is a payments technology and e-money specialist, providing a range of prepaid and alternative banking products.
David S. Wong
Chairman & CEO, Director of Midpoint
David is a London-based entrepreneur and investor in disruptive technologies and previously Managing Director of Expadis Capital. Prior to becoming an investor, he co-founded a publicly traded technology and media company. David has extensive experience in building, advising technology companies and helping businesses scale internationally. David started out as a client of Midpoint. He subsequently invested in the Company and joined the Board of Directors. David holds a BSc (Hons) in Engineering from the University of Liverpool and MA (Distinction) in Management from the University of Brighton.
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About Midpoint: Midpoint is a true peer-to-peer international payments platform for any businesses or individual wanting access to fair and transparent FX.
Adam Ward
CEO & Co-Founder of Airtime Rewards
Adam is the co-founder and CEO of Airtime Rewards Ltd.
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About Airtime Rewards: Airtime Rewards is an innovative loyalty platform pioneering unique rewards solutions with mobile operators.
Jonathan Quin
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder of WorldFirst
Jonathan co-founded World First in January 2004. His career before this included two years as Head of Business Development within the Financial Markets division of RBS. Prior to that he was at Citibank, initially as a trader before moving to the bank’s global corporate sales desk. He then looked after the European sales of Citibank’s online FX trading products. Jonathan holds a law and accountancy degree from the University of Edinburgh.
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About WorldFirst: WorldFirst is an international payments business helping businesses and people easy move money around the world at great exchange rates.
Gary Goodman
Founder & CEO of Yumpingo
Gary Goodman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Noel Moran
CEO of eCOMM Merchant Solutions
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About eCOMM Merchant Solutions: eCOMM Merchant Solutions focus is on providing their B2B customers with innovative payment technology solutions.
Brad Goodall
CEO & Co-Founder of Banked
Brad is a seasoned Fintech and consulting industry entrepreneur, having spent over 17 years building disruptive teams and businesses that challenge the status quo. As COO, Brad is leading the 10x business strategy development and building an exceptional team of transformation specialists to deliver the 10x vision.
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About Banked: Banked is a fintech company that provides an account-to-account payment software platform offering an alternative to card schemes.
Paul Christensen
Co-founder and CEO of Previse
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About Behavox, Founders Pledge, London Business School, Previse, Thin Green Line Foundation, University of Oxford: Previse has pioneered algorithm-driven invoice payment decisions.
Peter Keenan
Co-Founder and CEO of APEXX Global
Peter is the Chief Executive Officer of Zapp. He brings a wealth of insight, combining management experiences from HSBC where he was responsible for developing and implementing new customer propositions globally together with deep experience in retail having been Managing Director of Currys.
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About APEXX Global: APEXX consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
Martina King
CEO of Featurespace
Martina is responsible for the strategic direction and corporate vision at Featurespace. She has served as CEO since October, 2012. Former Managing Director of augmented reality company Aurasma, Martina King has an extensive career in media technology. Her previous leadership roles include Managing Director of Capital Radio, where she doubled revenues as Sales Director and successfully defended the radio station’s number one position in London. Martina was also Managing Director for Europe at Yahoo!, where she rebuilt the UK and Ireland business after the ‘dot com’ collapse and subsequently led the rebuilding of Yahoo!’s European division. Martina is also non-executive director of Capita Group, Cineworld and Debenhams
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
David Yates
CEO of VocaLink
David has been an advisor to Investcorp since April 2013. He is currently the CEO of VocaLink, the UK’s National Bank Clearing Company, and has over 30 years’ experience of Financial Technology Business. Prior to joining VocaLink, David was President of Western Union where he oversaw the development of strategy for e-Commerce, Mobile Payments, Business Payments and Pre-Paid Cards. Previously he spent six years at First Data Corporation (FDC), most recently as President of First Data International leading all of its non-US merchant acquiring, merchant transaction processing, issuer processing and ATM network solutions business units. David has also served in executive roles with several other major international corporations, including IBM and General Electric. David holds a Master’s degree in law from Oxford University.
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About VocaLink, Zapp: VocaLink develops and operates payments infrastructure solutions in the United Kingdom.
Philippe Morel
CEO of SETL
Philippe leads SETL’s overall strategy and operations. Prior to joining SETL, Philippe was the worldwide leader for Capital Markets, as well as the EMEA Leader for the Private Equity and Principal Investor Practice at a top-tier strategy consulting firm. Philippe has over 25 years of experience in financial services across the European markets, particularly in advising Corporates and Financial institutions on their strategies, organization, and change management.
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About SETL: SETL is a technology company that focuses on blockchain settlements and payments.
Richard Ambrose
CEO of Azimo
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About Azimo: Azimo is an online money transfer company that provides a fast, secure, and low-cost alternative to legacy high street remittance services.
Maggie Sanchez
CEO & Co-Founder of myCircle
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About myCircle: myCircle is a U.K.-based SaaS and data company that provides merchants with analytics and mobile financial app services.
Anthony Venus
Co Founder & CEO of YayPay
Anthony is a Fintech entrepreneur who thrives on solving difficult problems with creative ideas. As YayPay’s CEO, he’s typically found listening to customers, strategizing where to take YayPay next and leading our executive team.
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About YayPay: YayPay is intelligent accounts receivables automation
Paul Haydock
CEO & Co-founder of DueCourse
Paul Haydock co-founded a number of start-ups and raised multiple rounds of investment from Angels, VCs, Funds & Family Offices. Over the years he’s built up an extensive global investor network and knows the ins-and-outs of every phase of the fundraising journey. Paul now applies all this experience into helping other founders raise investment and get the best deal for them and their business.
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About DueCourse: DueCourse helps small businesses get paid on time by creating & sending ‘smart’ digital invoices to their customers in seconds. For Free.
Joe Lee
Chief Executive Officer of Magnr
Founder of Btc.sx
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About Magnr: The world’s most trusted Bitcoin Bank
Kimmo Soramaki
Founder & CEO of FNA
Kimmo Soramäki is the Founder and CEO of Financial Network Analytics (FNA) and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Network Theory in Finance. Kimmo started his career as an economist at the Bank of Finland where in 1997, he developed the first simulation model for interbank payment systems. In 2004, while at the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he was among the first to apply methods from network theory to improve our understanding of financial systems. During the financial crisis of 2007-2008, Kimmo advised several central banks, including the Bank of England and European Central Bank, in modeling interconnections and systemic risk. This work led him to found FNA in 2013 to solve important issues around financial risk and for exploring the complex financial networks that play a continually larger role in the world around us. Kimmo holds a Doctor of Science in Operations Research and a Master of Science in Economics (Finance), both from Aalto University in Helsinki.
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About FNA: FNA is a deep technology analytics company that offers financial system services.
Lilia Stoyanov
CEO of Transformify
Global strategic leader driving operations within finance, treasury, project management, product and business development areas in both Fortune 500 and fast growing fintech companies. Experienced in E commerce, On -line payments, On-line Gambling, Fintech, Business Transformation and Interim Management.
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About Transformify: Transformify Freelancer Management System (FMS) is the seamless way to manage and pay freelancers, consultants and contingent workers.
Kobus Paulsen
CEO of UC Group
There has been an ongoing dispute between Antigua and the United States over attempts by the United States to stop American citizens from using online gambling services operating from the Caribbean island. In 2005 the World Trade Organization ruled in favour of Antigua and dismissed the US appeal against the island. Kobus Paulsen, CEO of the UC Group, has advocated for many years that rather than trying to prevent US citizens from gambling online, the US Federal government would be better served by introducing a full regulatory process to guarantee proper consumer protection. As a member of the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, which was founded in 2007, Paulsen has seen this issue progress in recent years and with the recent decision of the state of New Jersey to allow regulated online gambling, there is a greater chance that other states will follow suit. Kobus Paulsen was born and educated in South Africa and from a young age was quick to adapt to new technologies. Whilst still in his homeland, he helped to develop the country’s first electronic publishing system. With his considerable technological knowhow and an ability to think out of the box, Paulsen was continually looking for methods of using technology to make the working processes simpler and more efficient for those using them. With his razor sharp mind and an in depth knowledge of new technologies, Kobus Paulsen was quick to appreciate that the full commercial value of the internet would only be realized when those using the systems had total trust in the integrity of trading online, both at consumer level and by those selling their services. So in 1999, having relocated to the United Kingdom, Kobus Paulsen founded the UC Group, precisely with the aim of providing a trusted and secure platform that would ensure the total integrity in the process of making online transactions. The group consisted of UC Capital and Secure Trading Group, with the former company acting very much as the investment arm of the business, whilst Secure Trading Group became recognized as a European leader in the provision of online payment processes. Many businesses now use the company’s software to ensure that their online consumers have complete protection on every occasion that they make an online purchase. In 2012 Paulsen acquired the Austrian company, Cognosec GmbH to as the latest member of the UC Group. The Viennese based company which specializes in providing management consulting services has helped the group’s influence expand globally and their recent Quality Security Assessor (QSA) accreditation means that they can now provide PCI DSS compliance audits across Europe; further consolidating the UC Group as the leader in its field. Kobus Paulsen’s achievements in the business world have only been possible because of the complete integrity and total honesty that he has displayed throughout his entire working career, combined with the exceptional standards and quality of work. He demands exactly the same from all those who work within his group and it is no surprise that the company fulfils its philosophy of providing its customers with the highest level of professionalism and customer service at all times.
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About UC Group: UC Group provides solutions of payment processing and logistics to global providers of products and services sold over internet.
Marcus Greenwood
Co-founder & CEO of Ubio
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About Ubio: Ubio provide direct booking capabilities for travel metasearch websites and apps.
Rajesh Parmar
Co-Founder & Group CEO of Cloud Africa
Rajesh is the co-founder of Cloud Africa Ltd. He brings a wealth of hands on experience having previously worked for Reuters and Investis in London for 10 years (Investis the leading corporate communications and investor relations company in the UK for web and mobile services providing online innovations to the London Stock Exchange which works for over 70% of the FTSE 100 companies) before moving to Barcelona to head up business development for NFC and beacon technology company Futurlink, a startup backed by La Caixa, the second largest bank in Spain. Under his guidance Cloud Africa has built up a very strong market reputation in Africa. A mobile and technology visionary and one of the early movers into the African region where he commands great respect from his peers in Africa and innovators looking to enter the market. He brings credibility and most importantly trust and gravitas both at the highest level in the African continent and with vendors and partners across the globe looking to successfully deploy products and services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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About Cloud Africa: Remittances to Africa.
David John
Founder & CEO of Loyalize
David has worked for a number of financial organisations, from Private Equity to Commodity Trading. Most recently, he worked as a Financial Services Consultant, focussed on developing and supporting national and international businesses going through strategic change. Outside of business, David is a keen and accomplished rugby player, and attempting golfer!
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About Findr, Loyalize: Loyalize is a white label payment, loyalty and customer engagement platform
Mark Datta
Co-founder & CEO of Tab
Mark worked in the finance industry, and at travel and fintech startups. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School. His favourite countries are Argentina, Cuba and Japan, and his off-the-beaten-path tip is to visit Fatehpur Sikri in India.
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About Tab: We’re revolutionising the way travellers discover, plan and book a trip.
Myles Stephenson
CEO & Co-Founder of Modulr
Myles Stephenson is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Modulr.
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About Modulr: Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
James Baillie
Founder & CEO of Wundr
I’m a crossborder commerce guy pioneering in-app ecommerce for consumer driven apps around the world. Millions of products from the worlds best brands for consumers to shop without ever having to leave the app they use day in day out. About me: I’m a single father of four. Cameron, Olivia, William and Jack inspire me every day. I grew up with nothing and every opportunity I have today has been carved out by myself. At the age of 12, I had two paper rounds, at 16 I went straight into work from school to support my family financially on a £30 a week two-year apprenticeship; I starting my first company with £80 in my pocket from my bedroom, recording £2m in sales year one – something I’m very proud of in 2006. My Business Overview: Founder, CEO, innovator, builder and leader of companies, growing businesses from scratch; building teams and powering $billions across international markets with a focus on emerging economies like China & South East Asia. I have spent the last 27 years in supply chain, distribution, ecommerce and tech where I am uniquely armed with a complete 360 view of business; all departmental functions and technology through to business development with some of the biggest companies in the world. In 2005, I relocated to China full time and over the next decade made a big difference to the supply chain and ecommerce sector working with global brands and tech companies in China including Alibaba, JD, Tencent and Amazon powering more than $1bn+ in digital sales over the last 15 years. Since moving back full time to the UK in 2016, I have focused on my family as a single father, building two start up companies in commerce, payments and banking, and advising boards and management teams across the world on crossborder commerce, ecommerce technology and ways to optimise and do things better.
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About Wundr: Next generation ‘Commerce as a Service’. Choose from a network of 1million+ brands for your customers to shop in-app
Prask Sutton
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Onvi
Founder & CEO of Wi5.
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About Onvi: The mobile-first POS system for hospitality
Brendan Doyle
Founder & CEO of Cash Management Solutions
Brendan founded CMS in 1991 following his MBA at Manchester Business School and a career at RBS, since then he has over 20 years’ experience of consultancy. Brendan introduced Just in Time cash deliveries into UK Retail Banking, developed cash optimisation software used by the majority of the top 100 UK retailers and also developed a specialist, unique cash management solution now used by financial institutions in over 20 countries globally. Brendan is also a regular guest speaker at conferences related to cash and payments.
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About Cash Management Solutions, CMS Payments Intelligence: Cash Management Solutions specialising in reducing supply chain costs,improving cash availability & releasing cash from balance sheets.
Andrea Donafee Brooks
CEO of Cash Management Solutions
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About Cash Management Solutions, Cash Management Solutions: Cash Management Solutions specialising in reducing supply chain costs,improving cash availability & releasing cash from balance sheets.
Simon Haslam
President and Chief Executive Officer of Elavon
As President and Chief Executive Officer at Elavon, Simon Haslam is responsible for the overall vision, strategy, and execution of Elavon’s worldwide mission of enabling global commerce. Before taking on his current position, Simon was President of International Markets at Elavon where he worked to expand Elavon’s presence to new markets in Europe, Mexico and Brazil. Simon joined Elavon with the addition of the Citigroup portfolio in 2005. At Citigroup, Simon served as Head of Credit and Risk with responsibility for all credit and fraud related activities impacting Citigroup’s Pan-European Merchant Acquiring Business. In 1995, Simon was elected as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. He serves as chairman of the board for Santander Elavon Merchant Services – Elavon’s newly created joint venture in Spain. He is also chairman of the board of Elavon do Brasil – Elavon’s joint venture in Brazil and Elavon Mexico. Additionally, Simon is a board member of Visa UK and UK Cards.
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About Elavon, Network International: Elavon helps businesses, small and large, accept all payment types.
Jane Turner
CEO of Centtrip
Jane joined market-leading treasury fintech Centtrip to lead its strategic expansion into Europe and the USA, bringing her expertise and track record in helping businesses accelerate growth. In her previous role as the Group Managing Director of international market intelligence and specialist consultancy Centaur Media, she oversaw the product innovation, digital transformation and acquisition of premier B2B marketing brands. Jane began her career in market research and data analytics with Mintel International and Claritas Nielsen, helping bring both into the digital age by introducing new digital distribution channels and data-driven licensing and subscription services. Jane’s deep understanding of the role of analytics, machine learning and AI in driving business growth led to her holding leadership roles at Havas Worldwide, WPP and global multi-media entertainment business Chorion, driving its international go-to-market channel strategy and digital product innovation for B2B and B2C audiences. In 2009, Jane completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Jane’s career spans the CxO suite, including as the CEO of a venture capital-backed fintech and social commerce incubator group Bright Station Ventures, the COO and CCO at cloud-based mobile app, SaaS and payments company myCircle, and as the founder of a number of app development start-ups.
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About Centtrip: Centtrip is an award-winning real-time treasury management platform that helps global companies achieve efficiency and cost reduction.
Michael Rolph
CEO and Co-Founder of Yoyo Wallet
Michael Rolph started his career at Barclaycard, First Data and PayPal. Prior to founding Yoyo, he was a founding member and Director at Anthemis Group, the specialist FinTech advisory and investment firm. During this time he advised multiple start-ups like Azimo and The Currency Cloud in their early stages as well as established players like Vocalink, Skrill and the Banks on digital innovation, investment and M&A. He is currently an advisor to Firestartr and has previously been a mentor at Seedcamp, the early stage funding company and a non-executive director at The MoBank Group.
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About Yoyo Wallet: Yoyo Wallet is a mobile payment, loyalty and marketing platform.
Sonny Michael Holmqvist
CEO of Basebone
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About Basebone: Basebone is a digital content business focused on the mobile phone user. We are the creators and owners of baseplay streaming services.
Sebastian Fallert
CEO and Co-founder of Ben
Sebastian Fallert is the CEO and co-founder of Ben.
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About Ben: Supercharge your benefits, save time and money
Neil McEvoy
Chief Executive Officer of Consult Hyperion
Neil is a founding Director of Consult Hyperion. He specialises in security for financial transactions and smart identity cards. He is the inventor of Consult Hyperion’s Structured Risk Analysis method. Every working day, hundreds of billion of pounds of financial transactions are settled through secure networks that Neil has specified and procured. Millions of citizens carry smart identity cards that he has specified. Neil’s expertise has been provided to clients as diverse as the Bank of England , the Hong Kong government, American Express and the European Space Agency. Prior to founding Consult Hyperion, Neil worked as a consultant specialising in the transmission of scientific data from spacecraft, network management and cryptography. He graduated in 1980 from University College, Oxford in chemistry. Neil is the author of papers on several topics, most recently on information risk analysis, secure transactions and identity cards.
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About Consult Hyperion: Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy.
Lukas Zoerner
Co-founder & CEO of Mespo
Lukas Zoerner is the Co-founder & CEO of Mobillity. Before founding Mobillity, he worked in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division advising Power & Utility companies across EMEA. Lukas holds a degree in business administration from the University of Mannheim in Germany.
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About Mespo: Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
James Neville
CEO of Citizen
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About Citizen: Citizen uses open banking to simplify payments for businesses and consumers.
Jon Beddell
CEO of TorFX
After failing to find a profession which united his childhood ambitions of being a pilot, archaeologist and zoologist, Jon began his career as a trader in a London-based investment firm. He then went on to become a founding member of the TorFX team. As CEO Jon is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of TorFX strategy as well as managing group projects including significant partnerships, acquisitions, overseas expansion and corporate strategy. For Jon one of the most rewarding aspects of his work is helping to make decisions which both improve the business and benefit its staff. When not working, Jon used to spend his spare time fishing and gliding. But since marrying and having children Jon is more likely to be found enjoying family time at home, cooking (with a glass of wine in hand), and running.
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About TorFX: TorFX is international money transfer provider offering outstanding exchange rates, fee-free transfers and first-class personal service.
Jon Beddell
CEO of TorFX
After failing to find a profession which united his childhood ambitions of being a pilot, archaeologist and zoologist, Jon began his career as a trader in a London-based investment firm. He then went on to become a founding member of the TorFX team. As CEO Jon is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of TorFX strategy as well as managing group projects including significant partnerships, acquisitions, overseas expansion and corporate strategy. For Jon one of the most rewarding aspects of his work is helping to make decisions which both improve the business and benefit its staff. When not working, Jon used to spend his spare time fishing and gliding. But since marrying and having children Jon is more likely to be found enjoying family time at home, cooking (with a glass of wine in hand), and running.
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About TorFX: TorFX is international money transfer provider offering outstanding exchange rates, fee-free transfers and first-class personal service.
Elizabeth Rossiello
Founder & CEO of AZA Finance
Elizabeth has lived and worked in Nairobi, Kenya since 2009 and knows financial services from the Mara to the Board room. She speaks 5 languages, has 2 kids, and still makes sure everybody meets their deadlines
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About AZA Finance, BitPesa: AZA is a provider of currency trading solutions that accelerate global access to frontier markets through an innovative infrastructure.
Joshua Bower-Saul
CEO of Cybertonica
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About Cybertonica: Cybertonica uses Machine Learning and AI to manage risk and fraud, increasing trust and growing frictionless banking and m/e-payments.
